| Date | Crowe’s life | Major paintings | |
| 1824 | Crowe born on 3 October at 141 Sloane Street, London | ||
| 1826 | Crowe family moves to La Capelle, near Boulogne | ||
| 1827/8 | Crowe family moves to Paris | ||
| 1839 | Enrols as pupil in Paul Delaroche’s atelier | ||
| 1843 | Travels to Rome with Delaroche. Meets Jean-Léon Gérôme | ||
| 1844 | Returns to London | ||
| 1845 | Begins working for W M Thackeray. Accepted as student in the Royal Academy Schools | ||
| 1846 | Master Prynne searching Archbishop Laud’s pockets in the Tower, first RA exhibit | ||
| 1847 | Participates in competition for decoration of Houses of Parliament | ||
| 1849 | Works with Thackeray on Louis Marvy’s Sketches after English Landscape Painters | ||
| 1851-1852 | Becomes art critic on the Daily News. Works with Thackeray on Esmond. | ||
| 1852-1853 | Goes to America with Thackeray as his secretary | ||
| 1853 | Mother dies in Paris | ||
| 1854 | A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina; and After the Sale: Slaves going South | ||
| 1856 | Returns to London | Boswell’s Introduction to the Literary Club, sold to art dealer Mr Gambart | |
| c.1858 | Joins the Hogarth Club | ||
| 1859 | Begins working as art inspector for the Department of Science and Art | ||
| 1861 | Joins the Reform Club | Slaves Waiting for Sale – Richmond, Virginia | |
| 1862 | De Foe in the Pillory, sold for £400 on first day of exhibition. International Exhibition, London: Pope’s Introduction to Dryden (1858) exhibited | ||
| 1863 | Founder member of the United Arts Club | Produces cartoons for mosaics to decorate South Court of South Kensington Museum. Brick Court, Middle Temple, April 1774 | |
| 1864 | ‘Honorary member’ of the St John’s Wood Clique. Photographed by David Wilkie Wynfield | Luther Posting his Theses on the Church Door of Wittenburg | |
| 1867 | Exhibits at the inaugural exhibition of cabinet paintings in oil at the Dudley Gallery. Appointed as an Art Referee at the South Kensington Museum | ||
| 1868 | Father dies | Produces lunette for decoration of Competition Gallery in South Kensington Museum. Mary Stuart, February 8th 1586 | |
| 1869 | Shinglers | ||
| 1870-1871 | Gérôme stays with Crowe in London during the siege of Paris | Friends | |
| 1872 | First recorded Royal Academy election involving Crowe | Tiff | |
| 1874 | The Dinner Hour, Wigan | ||
| 1875 | A Sheep-Shearing Match; and The French Savants in Egypt, 1798 | ||
| 1876 | Elected Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) | ||
| 1877 | Sanctuary | ||
| 1881 | Begins work as examiner of students’ artwork at South Kensington | ‘Sandwiches’; and Explosion at the Cashmere Gate at Delhi, Sept. 14, 1857 | |
| 1885 | Participates in debate in The Times over nudity in art | ||
| 1887 | Convicts at Work, Portsmouth | ||
| 1888-1889 | Spends autumn and winter in Aberdeen | Nelson Leaving England for the Last Time | |
| 1891 | The Founder of English Astronomy | ||
| 1893 | With Thackeray in America published | ||
| 1894 | Most spring inspecting trips ceased | The Brigs of Ayr | |
| 1895 | Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch’s Miniatures | ||
| 1897 | Thackeray’s Haunts and Homes published | Trial for Bigamy | |
| 1898 | James II at La Hogue, May 1692 | ||
| 1899 | Last sibling, Eugenie, dies | ||
| 1900 | Last autumn inspecting trip | ||
| 1907 | Last year of examining work at South Kensington | ||
| 1908 | Mendelssohn – last exhibit at RA | ||
| 1910 | Retired from the Royal Academy. Died on 12 December. Buried at Kensal Green cemetery on 15 December |
